Nome da Revista: Ciências Sociais
Unisinos
Classificação: B3
Dossiê Temático: Fronteiras
Étnicas, Biodiversidade, Conflitos e Resistências na Amazônia.
Prazo: 09/11/2020
Titulação: São aceitas submissões
de doutores e doutorandos. Ciências Sociais Unisinos não aceita artigos de
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Amazonia is a space where different social groups with different nationalities live together, constituting not only territorial borders, but also ethnic borders with social interactions and tensions. In addition to including six states in Brazil (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima) and part of three others (Maranhão, Mato Grosso and Tocantins), the Amazon is present in eight other Latin American countries: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
This scenario reveals a complex tangle of cultural, political and economic relations, permeated by markers of gender, race / ethnicity, social class and religion. Thus, ethnic-racial differences are hallmarks of the Amazon, forming part of an international border complex. Furthermore, the constant transit of people from border countries imposes on the same processes that constitute their identities on the border between national and international identity, reinforcing the dynamics of reconfiguration.
It is noteworthy that the projects implemented in the Amazon are developed from outside the region and often represent the interests of regional, national and international elites, but ignore the concerns of their inhabitants, nor do they have the environmental sensitivity necessary for the preservation of the environment. ecosystem, endangering its integrality. In this sense, fundamental rights are routinely violated. There are many places where the rule of law is unknown, run over by financial power, which often results from public funding and illegal activities that move fortunes, subjugate peoples, annihilate the environment, making crime the usual and indisputable practice. .
This predatory logic that has historically been consolidated in the Amazon generates conflicts caused, mainly by the development policies adopted in this immense region, resulting in disastrous consequences both for its biodiversity and for the multiple ethnic groups that inhabit it. These conflicts run through not only urban areas, but also emerge in rural areas, affecting traditional communities, mainly indigenous and quilombolas.
Such conflicts have national and international repercussions, not only because we are dealing with an important region in the maintenance of the planetary ecosystem (temperature, humidity and biological diversity), but also because it is a vital space that reveals unique social groups as humanity, since it houses hundreds of different peoples and cultures.
However, there is resistance to these processes of exclusion and inequality that is manifested through social movements and civil society organizations, such as: the Black Movement, Indigenous Movements / Organizations, Quilombola Communities and Traditional Communities of Terreiros, bringing together ethnic and racial groups that contributed to the social and cultural formation of the region. Such groups, which, through history, have often been made invisible and silenced, contemporaneously, confront each other to build another history of recognition of human dignity.
In the field of human and social sciences, there is an intellectual effort, with considerable advances in the understanding of the Amazon, and the growth of numerous studies, developed in several graduate programs linked to universities present in the region, is noticeable. However, there are still themes to be researched, or others that need to be revisited with different approaches, relating environmental, economic, social, cultural issues.
Therefore, the dossier Ethnic borders, biodiversity, conflicts and resistance in the Amazon proposes to receive articles that are the results of researches of interdisciplinary studies, analyzes that make explicit how conflicts that affect different ethnic-racial groups and biodiversity in the Amazon emerge, in addition to showing how resistance is built through the recognition of ethnic boundaries that permeate the complexity of Amazonian identity reconfiguration.